Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-06-23
Women Flogsed BY the Beers.

The editor of the Eastern Protince
| Herald writes from Port Elizabeth call
ing attention TO Boer brutality in the
Transyaal. The accuracy of the ac-
count is vouched for:
My name is Sara | am about "a
years of age. On Monday last | was
discharged from the Pretoria jail, after
being imprisoned for two months.
was sent to prison because was said 10
have been impudenttoa white woman.
| was not impudent, but, Mrs, ID.
said that had enticed the girl Rachel
TO run away. The tieldcornet came
with black constable ard said:
Catch the impudent woman and
take her to prison" Maraba said that
| should be taken to the landdrost.
First | was taken to the landdrost.
The landdrost said that | must pay q
tine Of Is or 90 TO the tronk for two
months and receive twenty-five lashes.
Mrs ID. said that / had come to entice
the girl away, and that Charlotte was
the impudent one Charlotte was fined
FL los, which was paid. Rachel was
! fined 81 los, which was paid by ,.
Coetzee, and she had to work it out !
was fined E3, but as / could not pay /
was sent to tronk and ordered 10 get
| twenty-five lashes. | was locked up
| for three weeks, and then the land
drost came to the tronk and ordered
me to receive the twenty-five lashes
while he stood by. / was tied up by my
wrists and legs and was logged until
| tainted The blood came out my back
where ] was logged. / had all my
clothes taken off with the exception of
my chemise, which was held around
my loins. 1t was after breakfast 'hat
| was 1ogged. When the landdrost
came / was washing his clothes. When
recovered from my faint | found my
| self on the blanket In the night OF
the day that | was logged they senf
for doctor. He pulled open my
mouth and put some stuff to my nose.
| think he came in the middle of the
night Tho next day l was told to go
and finish the washing of the landdrosts
clothes. The landdrost's maid,
Mayisa, who was in the tronk, told
the landdrost that l would not wash
the clothes. did not say so, but /
could not as my back was too sore.
Mavira had been twice logged by order
of the landdrost. The first time she
had fifteen lashes which were inflicted
| in the mems yard. She was stripped,
! her chemise being tied about her as
mine was. She was then logged on
! her shoulders. She was put in the
| tronk for two days on that occasion.
When she got out she went TO the
! lauddrost's house, and as she refused
to work in consequence of her back
being sore she was sent back for four
DAYS and to receive logging of
| twenty-five lashes. As her back was
too raw to be logged again in the
same place | was told to roll up her
/ chemise so that she could be tlogged
lower down. That nogging took place
in the women's yard. Mr.. Van Reenen
was present and the women were
! logged by Jack, Van Reenen
would not let me be beaten at first
because, he said | was too weak.
| About three weeks after | was put in
the tronk the landdrost came up in
| order to see that his sentence on me was
! carried out, and | was tied up and
| logged in his presence, the landdrost
! standing in front of me. When the
| landdrost was told that | would not
finish the washing of his clothes he
ordered me to be put in the stocks,
and l was kept in the stocks for two
days and two nights. and kept without
food the whole time. | know of six
women being logged while was
in the tronk. All were iioggcd
with the cat-o'-nine tails, and all were
beaten by Jack. who does all the
| Jogging in the Jail